"Recall him, let him fight successfully this terrible cancer and let’s get somebody in here that will keep the word he gave last year,” Gohmert said on FOX and Friends.

Updated at 2:30 p.m. to include information from the Arizona secretary of state's office.

WASHINGTON — With Sen. John McCain battling brain cancer — and blocking a last-ditch GOP effort to dismantle Obamacare —- East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert urged Arizona voters to toss him from office right away through a recall election.

That, Gohmert said Monday, would let McCain deal with his illness and clear a key political obstacle for those seeking to deliver on a longstanding Republican promise to overturn the Affordable Care Act.

"I think that Arizona can help him and us. Recall him, let him fight successfully this terrible cancer and let's get somebody in here that will keep the word he gave last year," the Tyler congressman said on Fox and Friends.

Arizona law allows for the recall of state and federal officials. The U.S. Constitution does not provide any recall mechanism, though it also doesn't explicitly bar states from allowing for removal of a senator or congressman. It's not clear if efforts to recall a senator based on the state law would pass constitutional muster, a spokesman for the Arizona secretary of state said Monday. No U.S. senator or member of congressman has ever been recalled.

McCain has a deadly form of brain cancer called glioblastoma. He announced Friday that he will vote against the latest bill, complaining that it wasn’t crafted through a bipartisan process, and its impact on his state and others hasn’t yet become clear.

"I believe we could do better working together, Republicans and Democrats, and have not yet really tried,” he said. “Nor could I support it without knowing ... how many people will be helped or hurt by it."

Doctors diagnosed McCain in July when they found a blood clot over his left eye after a routine checkup. He returned to Washington just 11 days after surgery to cast a rebellious vote, sinking a partial Obamacare repeal that Republicans had pinned their hopes on.

Republicans were angry then and many, including Gohmert, are angry now at his resistance to the Obamacare repeal push. Most have remained respectful, given his stature in the party and his terminal illness.

“Some say 3 percent, some say 14 percent,” he said. “So I just said: ‘I understand. Now we're gonna do what we can, get the best doctors we can find and do the best we can.’ And, at the same time, celebrate with gratitude a life well-lived.”

Like Gohmert, President Donald Trump hasn’t been too sympathetic toward the senator. In a flurry of tweets early Saturday morning, Trump criticized McCain for his decision to vote against the latest bill.

“John McCain never had any intention of voting for this Bill, which his Governor loves. He campaigned on Repeal & Replace. Let Arizona down!' he tweeted at 6:43 a.m. He then tweeted: "Arizona had a 116% increase in ObamaCare premiums last year, with deductibles very high. Chuck Schumer sold John McCain a bill of goods. Sad."

McCain was re-elected in 2016 for his sixth six-year term in the Senate.